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* BadassGrandpa: It's Creator/DannyTrejo in a starring role. This trope is a given.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus forfeiting his soul to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however. After all, he did get his revenge.]]

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* BadassGrandpa: It's Creator/DannyTrejo in a starring role. This trope is a given.
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BittersweetEnding: Guerrero [[spoiler:Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus forfeiting his soul to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however. After all, he did get his revenge.]]
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* BuriedInAPileOfCorpses: Guerrero and Calthea escape from the mine by concealing themselves in a mine cart underneath a pile of corpses.
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* {{Expy}}: Really, the entire story sounds like a particularly out-there version of one of [[Film/{{Machete}} Machete's]] adventures. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that this is a bad thing.]]

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* {{Expy}}: Really, the entire story sounds like a particularly out-there version of one of [[Film/{{Machete}} Machete's]] adventures. [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that this is a bad thing.]]
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* ResurrectionRevenge: Guerrero De La Cruz is betrayed and murdered by his gang, and ends up in hell. De La Cruz offers Lucifer a bargain: in return for his freedom, he will, within 24 hours, deliver the rest of the gang: Red, Baptiste, Ramos, Washington, Snake, and Darko. Lucifer agrees, but adds that if De La Cruz fails, his torments will be increased a thousandfold.
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The film was followed by a sequel, ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'', in 2017.
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* NarmCharm: It's a somewhat paint-by-numbers revenge western that has about every trope that a typical western film indulges in. But it has Danny Trejo and Mickey Rourke in it, and that makes it enjoyable for what it is.
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* HamAndCheese: Mickey Rourke is clearly enjoying his time playing The Devil in this flick.
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* VideoGameMovies: it's basically red dead redemption: the movie
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* VideoGameMovies: it's basically red dead redemption: the movie
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus making his soul continually subservient to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however. After all, he did get his revenge.]]

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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus making forfeiting his soul continually subservient to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however. After all, he did get his revenge.]]
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* NakedOnRevival: When Gurerro is returned to life, he wakes up naked in his grave. He later finds his clothes in a cupboard in Ramos' barn, implying that the gang buried him naked.
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* NotNowKiddo: When the Blackwater Gang rides into Edendale, Calathea goes to the sheriff's office to tell her husband that a gang of dangerous looking gunslingers have just ridden into town. He patronizingly tells her to come back when they've broken some kind of law, as he's discussing important business (i.e. mineral rights).
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* TakeOverTheCity: Red's plan shifts from stealing the gold being held in the bank to taking over the town so he controls the gold mine. After killing TheSheriff, he appoints himself the new sheriff and the mayor.
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* {{Expy}}: Really, the entire story sounds like a particularly out-there version of one of [[Film/Machete Machete's]] adventures. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that this is a bad thing.]]

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* {{Expy}}: Really, the entire story sounds like a particularly out-there version of one of [[Film/Machete [[Film/{{Machete}} Machete's]] adventures. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that this is a bad thing.]]
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* InTheBack: Red very casually shoots the Sheriff of Edendale in the back.

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* ALadyOnEachArm: When Satan appears on the balcony in the saloon just before Gurerro's murder, he has a girl on each arm. When Gurerro looks back, the girls are there but Satan is gone. When Gurerro is sent back to Earth, Red is sitting in the saloon with a topless prostitute on each arm.



* MeaningfulName: Guerrero de la Cruz is spanish for "Warrior of the Cross". Guerrero is a warrior, and he bears a inverted cross in his chest.

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* MeaningfulName: Guerrero de la Cruz is spanish Spanish for "Warrior of the Cross". Guerrero is a warrior, and he bears a inverted cross in his chest.
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* CouldntFindAPen: As Guerrero kills each of the gang and places their bodies in coffins outside the church, he pins a page of the bible to their chest with a knife and writes their number on it in blood.

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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus making his soul continually subservient to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however.]]

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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus making his soul continually subservient to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however. After all, he did get his revenge.]]



* ImAHumanitarian: See OralFixation below. It's subtly implied that part of the Devil's torture of his victim is to ''eat'' them piece by piece.
* ItAmusedMe: Why does the Devil [[spoiler: redirect Guerrero and Red's bullets during the climactic shootout so that neither of them hit each other? Probably because he thought it was funny.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Guerrero:''' '''''WHY???''''']]
--> [[spoiler: '''The Devil:''' ''EvilLaugh'']]



* OralFixation: From ripping off and eating one of Guerrero's fingernails to putting his finger in a stab wound and then sucking the blood off his finger like a candy cane, Mickey Rourke's devil has a rather...weird relationship with his victims.



* ShootTheBullet: Happens with the first shots fired in the climatic showdown between Guerrero and Red.

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* ShootTheBullet: Happens with the first shots fired in the climatic showdown between Guerrero and Red. [[spoiler: This is because the Devil is manipulating the bullet's flight path for his own personal amusement.]]


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* SlashedThroat: How Guerrero kills Washington.

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* BadassGrandpa: It's Creator/DannyTrejo in a starring role. This trope is a given.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline of killing the Blackwater Gang by midnight, thus making his soul continually subservient to the Devil. However, the Devil "spares" him for the purpose of hunting down other outlaws in the wild west. It's implied that Guerrero is alright with this deal, however.]]



* BondOneLiner: What pulpy western doesn't have them? There are a couple of good ones in this flick.
** When the first of the Blackwater Gang sees that the naked man in front of him is a resurrected Guerrero.
--> '''Gang member:''' What the hell?
--> '''Guerrero:''' ''Now'' you're talking!
** Perhaps the best one comes at the very end of the film.
--> '''The Devil:''' They say that man was made in God's image...unfortunately, ''you'' were made in '''mine.''' [[spoiler: Begins to torture Red.]]



* DealWithTheDevil: The main point of the film. Guerrero literally makes a deal with the devil to get revenge on his former gang. [[spoiler: He fails in the end, but un/fortunately for him, the Devil has other plans for him...]]



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Guerrero has no problem with stealing the gold from Edendale's bank. However, he draws the line at siezing control of the mine and the entire town, and raping the sheriff's wife.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Guerrero has no problem with stealing the gold from Edendale's bank. However, he draws the line at siezing seizing control of the mine and the entire town, and raping the sheriff's wife.wife. [[spoiler: It gets him killed...the first time.]]
** This actually becomes a bit of a plot point: The Devil continually expresses annoyance at Guerrero's insistence on looking out for the sheriff's wife post-resurrection. As far as the Devil is concerned, this is just a waste of time...time that Guerrero should really be using to save his soul.



* EvilRedhead: Red fits the bill.



* {{Expy}}: Really, the entire story sounds like a particularly out-there version of one of [[Film/Machete Machete's]] adventures. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that this is a bad thing.]]



* GratuitousSpanish: Though the film justifies it by claiming that he is Guerrero's half-brother, it is still rather weird to hear ''[[Film/TheBreakfastClub Anthony]] [[Film/WeirdScience Michael]] [[Film/SixteenCandles Hall]]'' pepper his dialogue with bits of Spanish.



* HandCannon: Guerrero carries a pair of massive custom-made three barreled pistols.

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* HamAndCheese: Mickey Rourke is clearly enjoying his time playing The Devil in this flick.
* HandCannon: Guerrero carries a pair of massive custom-made three barreled pistols. His ability to reconstruct the guns is what tips off the first of his victims that [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay this is actually Guerrero.]]
* HandsomeLech: Snake of the Blackwater Gang. He's always flirting or getting handsy with pretty women. [[spoiler: One of the last things he does is take a little too much pleasure in having Calathea at his disposal.]]



** [[spoiler: he also brands Red the same way at the end of the film, as the start of what will be an eternity of suffering.]]

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** [[spoiler: he also brands Red the same way at the end of the film, as at the start of what will be an eternity of suffering.]]


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** Red's choice of renaming "Edendale" to "Tombstone" is another: Tombstone was the name of a famously lawless town in the American West, and this Tombstone quickly falls into decadence after Red takes over.


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* NarmCharm: It's a somewhat paint-by-numbers revenge western that has about every trope that a typical western film indulges in. But it has Danny Trejo and Mickey Rourke in it, and that makes it enjoyable for what it is.


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* SkywardScream: [[spoiler: What Red does as Satan brands him, marking the beginning of Red's eternity of suffering.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Red:''' '''''GUERRRERROOOOOO!!!''''']]


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* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: In the end, Guerrero fails to kill all of the gang by midnight of his day. But the Devil instead tells him to bring him the souls of every outlaw that is alive before he can die in peace. Guerrero has a lot of work to do...]]
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* AffablyEvil: The devil played by Mickey Rourke is a sadistic, torturing and utterly immoral figure...but Mickey Rourke clearly has fun in this role.


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* AssholeVictim: The Blackwater Gang is a murderous, thieving and utterly despicable assortment of wretches. It makes it all the more satisfying when Guerrero gets his hands on them.


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* DeathIsCheap: Guerrero [[spoiler: dies at least twice in the film, both for getting a second shot on s ridiculously hard job offer as well the Devils amusement.]]


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* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Mickey Rourke, the devil has a gravelly baritone voice.


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** Given a rather practical motif in Satan's "job": he's a ''blacksmith.''


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** [[spoiler: he also brands Red the same way at the end of the film, as the start of what will be an eternity of suffering.]]
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''Dead in Tombstone'' is a 2013 American direct-to-video action-horror western film directed by Roel Reiné. The film stars Creator/DannyTrejo, Mickey Rourke and Anthony Michael Hall.

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''Dead in Tombstone'' is a 2013 American direct-to-video action-horror western film directed by Roel Reiné. The film stars Creator/DannyTrejo, Mickey Rourke Creator/MickeyRourke and Anthony Michael Hall.
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''Dead in Tombstone'' is a 2013 American direct-to-video action-horror western film directed by Roel Reiné. The film stars DannyTrejo, MickeyRourke and Anthony Michael Hall.

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''Dead in Tombstone'' is a 2013 American direct-to-video action-horror western film directed by Roel Reiné. The film stars DannyTrejo, MickeyRourke Creator/DannyTrejo, Mickey Rourke and Anthony Michael Hall.



* [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Showdown at Midnight]]: The climatic showdown between Guerrero and Red takes place at midnight rather than high noon, but otherwise follows the trope.

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* [[ShowdownAtHighNoon Showdown at Midnight]]: ShowdownAtHighNoon: The climatic showdown between Guerrero and Red takes place at midnight rather than high noon, but otherwise follows the trope.



* WeirdWest

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* WeirdWestWeirdWest: A Western in which an outlaw takes a job offer from the Devil to deliver the souls of his enemies.
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* DevilsJobOffer: Satan releases Guerrero from Hell with a promise to return him to life he can deliver the souls of his six betrayers to Hell within 24 hours.

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* DevilsJobOffer: Satan releases Guerrero from Hell with a promise to return him to life he can deliver the souls of his six betrayers to Hell within 24 hours. At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Guerrero fails to meet his deadline by two minutes. Satan allows him to remain on Earth so long as he continues to send the souls of outlaws to Hell]].

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Like A Badass Out Of Hell is being split into new tropes.


* DealWithTheDevil: Guerrero makes a deal with Satan. If he can send the souls of the six gang members who murdered to Hell within 24 hours, Satan will return him to life. If he fails, his torments will be a thousandfold.

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* DealWithTheDevil: DevilsJobOffer: Satan releases Guerrero makes a deal from Hell with Satan. If a promise to return him to life he can send deliver the souls of the his six gang members who murdered betrayers to Hell within 24 hours, Satan will return him to life. If he fails, his torments will be a thousandfold.hours.



* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Satan releases Guerrero from Hell with a promise to return him to life he can deliver the souls of his six betrayers to Hell within 24 hours.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It is Red's plan to rape the sheriff's wife that causes the final break between Red and Gurrero.
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* CavalryBetrayal: Judah Clark arrives at the mine with a posse of armed men wearing badges. However, instead of being their to save Guerrero and Calathea, he is there to collect the gold that the Blackwater Gang owes him.

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* CavalryBetrayal: Judah Clark arrives at the mine with a posse of armed men wearing badges. However, instead of being their there to save Guerrero and Calathea, he is there to collect the gold that the Blackwater Gang owes him.

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* BodybagTrick: Guerrero and Calathea sneak past Washington and Snake by hiding at the bottom of a pile of bodies being wheeled past on a mine cart.



* BodybagTrick: Guerrero and Calathea sneak past Washington and Snake by hiding at the bottom of a pile of bodies being wheeled past on a mine cart.

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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The five traitors are all colorful criminals with their own shtick.


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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The five traitors are all colorful criminals with their own shtick.


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* MeaningfulName: Guerrero de la Cruz is spanish for "Warrior of the Cross". Guerrero is a warrior, and he bears a inverted cross in his chest.


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* SequelHook: Of sorts. [[spoiler: Guerrero kills his old gang, but the Devil sabotages him so he doesn't succeed until past midnight (therefore breaking the deal). Satan changes the deal so Guerrero is forced to act as his bounty hunter for the rest of eternity. The movie ends with Guerrero riding to the sunset to his next target.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Judah Clark is the mine owner who happily cuts a deal with Red and the Blackwater Gang to keep the money flowing into his coffers.


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* EvilBrit: CorruptCorporateExecutive Judah Clark.

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